ROMANCE PHILOLOGY M - Z
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
ELIANA GIOVANNA CREAZZO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding
in a post-secondary level field of study and knowing the fundamental themes in
one's field of study;
2) ability to apply knowledge
and understanding in order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess
adequate skills both to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in
one's field of study
5) learning skills necessary
to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
In the specific field
of ecdotics the student will acquire skills relating to the structure and
composition of the medieval manuscript and elements of the critical edition of
texts.
The student, will acquire, in the linguistic field, a good level of
knowledge of the historical formation of the Romance languages, their geographical distribution, the
major differences and similarities between them, the linguistic structures that
develop in diachrony in the transition from Latin to derived varieties; in the literary field, will
acquire knowledge related to the formation of literary genres in the
Middle Ages, according to a comparative perspective. In the
field of ecdotics he will acquire skills relating to the structure and
composition of the medieval manuscript and elements of the critical edition of
texts.
Course Structure
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The teaching will take place
through lectures and practical exercises in class
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Required Prerequisites
Skills acquired at the end of upper secondary school
relating to history, culture and literary history of the medieval period, text analysis.
Attendance of Lessons
Optional but recommended attendance
Detailed Course Content
1. Elements of Textual Criticism
2. From Latin to Romance Languages
3. The Medieval
Romance
Textbook Information
L.
Leonardi, L. Minervini, E. Burgio, Filologia
romanza. Critica del testo, linguistica, analisi letteraria, Le
Monnier, 2022, pp. 561.
A book of your
choice between
Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, Carocci 2016.
La canzone di Orlando, Bur 1985.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
1-Written exam in progress
2-Final oral exam
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
What is a critical edition
What is the difference between errors and variants
What are the sources of Vulgar Latin
How is the system of tonic vocalism configured in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages
What are the first novel texts
What are the differences between epic and courtly novel
What is adventure in the novels of Chrétien de Troyes
